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KARL OTFRIED MULLER (1797-1840)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 963 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MULLER (1797-1840)  , See also:German See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Brieg in See also:Silesia on the 28th of See also:August 1797 . He was educated partly in See also:Breslau, partly in See also:Berlin, where his See also:enthusiasm for the study of See also:Greek literature, See also:art and See also:history was fostered by the See also:influence of See also:Bockh . In 1817, after the publication of his first See also:work, Aegineticorum See also:liber, he received an See also:appointment at the Magdaleneum in Breslau, and in 1819 he was made See also:adjunct See also:professor of See also:ancient literature in the university of See also:Gottingen, his subject being the See also:archaeology and history of ancient art . His aim was to See also:form a vivid conception of Greek See also:life as a whole; and his books and lectures marked an See also:epoch in the development of Hellenic studies . See also:Miller's position at Gottingen being rendered unpleasant by the See also:political troubles which followed the See also:accession of Ernest See also:Augustus (See also:duke of Cumber-See also:land) to the See also:throne of See also:Hanover in 1837, he applied for permission to travel; and in 1839 he See also:left See also:Germany . In See also:April of the following See also:year he reached See also:Greece, having spent the See also:winter in See also:Italy . He investigated the remains of ancient See also:Athens, visited many places of See also:interest in See also:Peloponnesus, and finally went to See also:Delphi, where he began excavations . He was attacked by intermittent See also:fever, of which he died at Athens on the 1st of August 184o . Among his See also:historical See also:works the foremost See also:place belongs to his Geschichten hellenischer Stdmme and See also:State: Orchomenos und See also:die Minyer (182o), and Die Dorier (1824; Eng. trans. by H . Tufnell and Cornewall See also:Lewis, 183o, including the See also:essay Ober die Makedonier, on the settlements, origin and See also:early history of the Macedonians) . He introduced a new See also:standard of accuracy in the cartography of ancient Greece . In 1828 he published Die Etrusker, a See also:treatise on See also:Etruscan antiquities .

His Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie (1825; Eng. trans., J . Leitch, 1844), in which he avoided the extreme views of G . F . Creuzer and C . A . See also:

Lobeck, prepared the way for the scientific investigation of myths; while the study of ancient art was promoted by his Handbuch der Arciidologie der Kunst (1830; Eng. trans., J . Leitch, 1847), and Denkmdler der See also:alien Kunst (1832), which he wrote in association with C Osterley . In 184o appeared in See also:England his History of ih: Iuerature of Ancient Greece; the See also:original German work from which had been translated being issued in Germany in 1841 (4th ed. by E . Heitz, 1882) . Chapters i.–xxii. were translated by See also:Sir See also:George Cornewall Lewis; chapters See also:xxiii.–See also:xxxvi. by J . W . See also:Donaldson, who carried the work down to the taking of See also:Constantinople by the See also:Turks .

It is still one of the best books on the subject . See also:

Muller also published an admirable See also:translation of the See also:Eumenides of See also:Aeschylus with See also:introductory essays (1833), and new See also:editions of See also:Varro (1833) and Festu: (1839) . See memoir of his life by his See also:brother Eduard, prefixed to the See also:posthumous edition of K . 0 . Miller's Kleine deutsche Schriften (1847); F . Lucke, Erinnerungen an K . 0 . Muller (Gottin en, 1841); F . See also:Ranke, K . O . Muller, ein Lebensbild (Berlin, 1870; C . See also:Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883), ii. xoo7–1028; C .

Dilthey, Otfried Muller (Gottingen, 1898); E . See also:

Curtius, Altertum and Gegenwart; and J . W . Donaldson's essay On the Life and Writings of Karl Otfried Muller in vol. i. of the See also:English translation of the history of Greek literature . A See also:biography composed from his letters was published by O. and E . See also:Kern, K . 0 . Muller, Lebensbild in Briefen an See also:seine Eltern (1908); see also J . E . See also:Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, iii . (1908), 213-216 .

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